If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.